"I took the audience to Antarctica last season, and now I'm taking them to space," jokes Eudon Choi. The 34-year-old designer is referring to his spring collection, an outer-limits odyssey inspired by Kubrick, which came on the heels of a polar exploration–themed fall offering. (Sample piece: the Shackleton coat, named after Ernest Shackleton, the early-twentieth-century British explorer who made expeditions to the South Pole.) Choi's spring lineup, shown in London last September, was an immersion in a particularly '60s brand of retro futurism: fresh windowpane checks, generously sleeved boxy tops in slick patent leather, jaunty pillbox hats, and jumpsuits worked in shiny lunar silver.

Eudon Choi: Galaxy Quest - Page 3

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Sharp ankle-strap pumps made in collaboration with cobbler Joanne Stoker and fold-over purses by handbag designer Thomas Blakk completed the ultramod picture. These are the kind of clothes that the '60s' Germanic Amazon model Veruschka, whom the designer calls his muse, could have posed in on a photo shoot featuring bubble chairs and smooth lounge music. Still, the collection wasn't a complete blast from the past: "I was creating something quite modern," he says, "just by twisting some things or pinching here or there to create a 3-D effect.